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CANASA announced that its Executive Director J. David Ritter has resigned. Ritter assumed leadership February 13, 2017.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) has renewed The Protection Bureau’s Five Diamond Monitoring Center designation. This designation is granted annually to monitoring centers that satisfy all of the requirements of the five points of excellence, the company said in a press release.

Skylar Odin of Miami Springs was awarded ESA-FL’s first place in the Youth Scholarship Program. Odin’s father is Chief of Hialeah Fire Headquarters and her “guardian angel,” as she wrote in her essay.

DMP announced the successful completion of its first surveillance audit following the transition to the 2015 edition of the ISO 9001 quality management system standard in 2016.
 

The first official annual meeting of the newly-named The Monitoring Association (TMA) will build on the previous successful meetings of the Central Station Alarm Association. TMA will welcome keynote speaker Jack Uldrich, a well-recognized global futurist, speaker and author of 11 books.

Jon Sargent retired from Tyco Integrated Security on April 14 after 44 years in the security industry.

TMA announced Napco Security Technology’s David Lyons died on April 18, 2017.

Electric Guard Dog CEO Jack DeMao won a Gold Stevie Award as Maverick of the Year, Business Services, while the company won the Bronze Stevie Award for Company of the Year, Business Services in The 15th Annual American Business Awards. 

The Security Industry Association (SIA), the nonprofit association representing global security companies, and University of Phoenix have awarded full-tuition scholarships to 11 full-time employees from SIA member companies. Scholarship recipients will have the opportunity to complete a bachelor’s or master’s degree program at University of Phoenix.

Anyone who thinks the fire alarm industry — with its restricting codes and standards and conservative outlook — doesn’t experience exciting changes, would be wrong.